Avoiding theological positions as I say, all I meant to present were the statistical reasons that make me believe we are either alone, or that life is at best, a VERY RARE thing in our universe. Looking at the pictures from Hubble last night on our local edu-station and seeing the vast number of galaxies out there, one has to believe that among those gooogol of googol stars there HAS to be more life somewhere, but where? Apparently not very nearby.
Yes, if there are civilizations out there, they MAY have by passed our communication technology, but they still would be leaving us very big signals, microwaves, random radiations of any number of energies and light that we're more than cabable of detecting, say a Dyson cloud of space habitations, but there just not out there. At least, not anywhere we've looked to date. And I really think we'd have noticed a star-spanning civilization if it were anywhere within a globe of 100 LY.
Pappy
Yes, if there are civilizations out there, they MAY have by passed our communication technology, but they still would be leaving us very big signals, microwaves, random radiations of any number of energies and light that we're more than cabable of detecting, say a Dyson cloud of space habitations, but there just not out there. At least, not anywhere we've looked to date. And I really think we'd have noticed a star-spanning civilization if it were anywhere within a globe of 100 LY.
Pappy